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Totally worth it, in my opinion.
i used to exercise daily for a decent amount of time, but these days i have been too busy setting up my stream and can hardly make time in between to justify stuffing my face with delicious carbs 
You can eat it with lunch
How? Like grits?
Pooridge-like
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Pirão and Farinha de Mandioca at the top right corner
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They also got cassava fries there, their platter is way too large for only 2 people lol Went there with my girlfriend, but we had to take half home
I think we need to have a cooking meet-up in our voice channels one of these days lol
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if i ever get my hands on one, i might try to plant it. but i am very bad at gardening/planting. anything I put in the soil tends to die, even when i take careful measures to keep it alive
Ello does anyone know of a good video editing software thats cheap/free?
You can go for DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design which is free but has some paid features down the road. An alternative would be the Full Open Source Software KDEnlive.
So I am kinda thinking about making a second channel to try out streaming in my native language (and not alienate my current viewer base). Does anyone here have experience with that? Like - did it work out for someone here? 
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I know the struggle, I used Outward(love the game) to grow my channel "quickly", I enjoy the game and it has a good community, but can't play the game for too long, so I keep on seeing people randomly come in and go, not having more consistent viewers is discouraging, not a fun time for sure
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I dont know how long you've been streaming, but i wonder if this sentiment is especially true for newer streamers. attempting to fine tune your content can feel like futilely chipping away at a stone with two butter knives lol. you have no idea what you're doing, you can end up making a lot of mistakes (sometimes feeling like you're taking two steps back), and you have no idea how to apply the advice you're given.
That's basically true for all new content creators. This first stage of finding out your own content can take a while. Hard as it may be, it's essential to define everything that you'll be doing. Your branding, community, workflow, creative process, affinities...
but it's nice to have a community that's available to help, or at least is there to vent frustrations to. and people who understand.
That's our main goal
I think I see what you mean. Have an idea of what your ideal version what your content should be a strive for that, right?
Yeah!
The 3 average is the biggest..... Obstacle
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First streamer that I clicked was streaming the first Avengers movie while he was AFK. So that's a thing that happens on Kick, apparently.
the MPAA would like to know your location 
The rest of the people that I saw streaming there was either gambling, pretending to be experts about a copy-paste Twitch platform, or not even streaming their game properly
So what you're saying is there's a lot of green fields
I'm guessing that purple was already taken 
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There has yet to be a good-faith explanation as to why they have been so secretive about their affiliations, and aside from the 95/5 split (a completely unsustainable figure long-term) have given streamers no reason to move.
I'm going to keep going on this thought, because I have time at the moment. I'm struggling from a technologist perspective to understand how Kick can be profitable long-term, considering what is needed to successfully run a streaming company at scale, with a guarantee of 95/5 split. Early adopters need to understand: You will be grinding. You have a much lower n value, the number of viewers on the platform, so you will have a much smaller pot to draw from. Yes, you will be more visible for the next few weeks, but once more accounts appear and more people go live, that's when the technological issues are going to start mounting and the discovery will dive off the chart. Unless you have a loyal audience that is willing to give up any existing paid subs and shift to another platform (and pay a new sub fee), all power to you. Train may be of the size to make that shift without seeing a substantial falloff of revenue, but I'm also sure he has a pocket deal with Kick that ensures him revenue regardless based on the revenues pulled in from the gambling side. Kick.com (unofficially and according to my research) is backed by Easygo, an Australian gambling software developer, and Stake.com, Easygo's online Casino based out of the Country of Curaçao. For those unaware, the Country of Curaçao is a literal tax haven, built from the ground up to hide tax revenues from governments. It's an ideal place to run an unregulated casino, because they're not actually performing business in the Country of Curaçao because it's on the internet, so it's tax free! It's morally criminal, honestly, but technically legal. The morals and ethics question is pretty huge. I haven't read the TOS or anything, and I've not been to Kick.com longer than a minute to browse the main page, so I'm talking a little bit out of school, but from the reports I'm seeing about rampant pornography, copyrighted materials, and the glaringly obvious fact that gambling is being shown to (read: forced onto) underage viewership. This company should have had this content moderation aspect thought through and a solution in order before launching. It will be interesting to see how the company weathers that.
lol! what did you guys get??
Is my shirt fishnet? Gross...
I don't even remember going to r/warframe that often lol Must have kept a tab open some day
"Leaning forwards while playing gives you +0 advantage"
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I'm too lazy to get a secondary account
Waaaay more karma over there, but not 20K karma. Good lord!
Ignore the graphic glitches currently. Xorg Screenshots can be weird, will solve that another time
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I must say that this feels extremely weird to me. I didn't play much Eldenring and didn't post anything in the sub. Seems that anarchist/ political subs get removed.
I must say that this feels extremely weird to me. I didn't play much Eldenring and didn't post anything in the sub. Seems that anarchist/ political subs get removed.
I hear you. I'm pretty sure that 18 hours on r/bitburner was like, one day. I've only played that game a few times.
LET'S GO!
LET'S GO!
GG!
The supplies started rolling in!
I really like kingdom hearts
Hello everyone
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Hello everyone
Welcome in, Dagon
Hello everyone
Hello Dagon!
When your first sentence is "Joe Rogan never marketed his podcast" but leave out 1) the immense amount of NAME FACTOR this man's employers had at the time (UFC, Fear Factor) and 2) the coinciding SEO help....
Of course they would say that... It's a group of self-congratulatory people that like to portray successful people as "self-made men".
if you're daily streaming, you're going to burn out, HARD.
And also, yes. There definitely are people who can stream every single day, and keep this routine going for months. But no one can escape burning out in a rhythm like that.
I think we'll all agree that discoverability is close to zero on Twitch. Sticking to one category, consistency - I think it's more meant to help you by giving the potential viewers a chance to come back to you, have this anchor. About the whole 'hustle' thing - that sells, people want to believe that 'hey, I can ALSO be sucessful if I follow that person!". That was always the best marketing tactic People do not care about survivorship bias, about lucky/rich parent - starts, etc. I would love to live my perfect dream: playing games for a living, but not having to do too much stuff. Having just enough people on chat. Earn more than I am earning in my normal work, without having any ads or sponsorship. Stream when I want to, and don't stream when I don't. But this is just wishful thinking, and I've learned enough to know that it won't look that way, unless I am in 0,0001% luckiest people in the world. So instead it's better to chill out, have some fun, and maybe - just maybe - you'll get to a spot which you enjoy. Unless, of course, you love to try-hard and that's something to grind your gears
People do not care about survivorship bias, about lucky/rich parent - starts, etc. I would love to live my perfect dream: playing games for a living, but not having to do too much stuff. Having just enough people on chat. Earn more than I am earning in my normal work, without having any ads or sponsorship. Stream when I want to, and don't stream when I don't. But this is just wishful thinking, and I've learned enough to know that it won't look that way, unless I am in 0,0001% luckiest people in the world. So instead it's better to chill out, have some fun, and maybe - just maybe - you'll get to a spot which you enjoy. Unless, of course, you love to try-hard and that's something to grind your gears
But you never should look at somebody else, only if it's a source of (empiric-based) inspiration
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Got a Rode PSA1+ for my birthday, necessitated an emergency rearrangement of my overhead camera mounting pole 
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@TenderSausage I figured it out! QT player has some setting that when wired I can stream my iPad screen to the computer.
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Got a Rode PSA1+ for my birthday, necessitated an emergency rearrangement of my overhead camera mounting pole
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Thank you!!
Got a Rode PSA1+ for my birthday, necessitated an emergency rearrangement of my overhead camera mounting pole
Happy Birthday!
Overhead cam for keyboard building? :3
I've had it for a while and use it for a bunch of stuff, actually! But that's part of the plan for Year 3.
I got my first sponsor ship today!
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I got my first sponsor ship today!
GG!
Hey guys, I'm a new streamer and looking to create two streams from the same source/webcam. I'm an up and coming day trader and would like one stream to be faster (as close to real-time as possible) than the other one. The real-time stream will be to paid subscribers only. While the free stream, I would like to have a 5 second delay. Is this possible to do from one PC?
Better to write a post on #🔧│tech-support. Or wait for a response on the question that you asked on the subreddit.
Hello everyone!
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Looks like subs can now use follower emotes across Twitch. A good upgrade, IMO.
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Would it be a terrible idea to use 2 GPUs in one computer? One for streaming and the other for games
I should test this.
Yeah it looks like there’s a chance the drivers won’t play nice and the config won’t work
Because you're only using the 1660 for NVENC, I'm curious to know if we can use the Studio driver and get away with it. I use the Studio driver on my stream PC.
Because you're only using the 1660 for NVENC, I'm curious to know if we can use the Studio driver and get away with it. I use the Studio driver on my stream PC.
I’ve got a question I’ll ask in the thread
hi anyone know how i can get permissions to post in the Streams section
#❗│announcements
Sorry y'all, due to insane work requirements I'm pushing the 2022 Review to tomorrow, same time. See you all then!
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@here 
️ TODAY'S EVENT WILL BE HELD ON THE 🔊Chat CHANNEL, SO THAT WE CAN SCREENSHARE ️
️ TODAY'S EVENT WILL BE HELD ON THE 🔊Chat CHANNEL, SO THAT WE CAN SCREENSHARE ️
Unfortunately, I can't stay long. But to answer the question, no I didn't get to achieve any of my goals this year. Life really took a toll on me. However, I do have list of goals that I'm going to trying for next year! Here's hoping!
It's completely understandable, and I hope you reach your goals next year!
To everyone that could attend to our first event, thank you! To those that couldn't, don't worry, we'll have more events soon!
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How was the event? I guess I could myself use some goal setting again after that pesky 2022 
I guess I could myself use some goal setting again after that pesky 2022
It was fun :3 nice to chat to everyone, we got a bit off track with the goals talk haha you should join us next time ❤️
Sorry about the wandering from the track, that has a lot to do with me leading the event with a very quickly made agenda. Next time it will be far more organized, I felt like we just needed to get one under our belt to know how it would go.
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Sorry about the wandering from the track, that has a lot to do with me leading the event with a very quickly made agenda. Next time it will be far more organized, I felt like we just needed to get one under our belt to know how it would go.
I think it was perfect the way it was. It was a first try and gave a lot new impulses.
Yeah it was fun regardless 
I think we all contributed to the meandering haha
I think we all contributed to the meandering haha
W SEO
Mine could be worse...
Morning all
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"how to cook sausage the best way" xD
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You can add it to your chat rules on Twitch. Rule N° 1: Be nice, don't be jerky
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Showing my face in 128×112 grey scale pixels will definitely improve my visuals 
Hello Fresh didn't send me anything to use, other wise i'd do a stream of like cooking it or something. but they didn't send me the materials so I can't
It's not a direct sponsorship, Hello Fresh is basically asking you for free advertising. I don't think there's any actual encouragement you can bring to sell some of those.
Morning all! Hope everyone is having a great day!
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Morning all! Hope everyone is having a great day!
im doing ok, just chilling
Hello!
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We got some crazy cold weather last night, dropped a bit of snow here in western Oregon.
i've got a bit here, was snowing this morning when I woke up
I give up, I think i'm just gonna record a pre-made sponsored segment for my stream instead of trying to do it on the spot
Maybe you're trying to hard. Tenders pointers are pretty good but - let's be real: This offer isn't that good. Instead of upselling your audience - and risking alienating some - put a banner in your about section and see if someone maybe one day click on it. You're making yourself a marketing tool for the vague option of maybe receiving a few bucks. Is it really worth it?
The only sponsor I would recommend at a small size is Oodie, because you get an expensive, comfy blanket hoodie just for wearing it for one stream xD
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We as streamers are really a strange demographic. We're investing tons in a hobby and sure - some of us maybe get to a point when it's a "sane" business decision - yet on the way to that point we're constantly getting exploited. Exploited by platforms that do fuck all to support us, advertising companies, tech companies, people on Fiverr selling the same things to dozens of people - and ourself. Just for the joy of producing content, of grinding. The meaningful para-social relationships (which sounds like an oxymoron in itself) are keeping me, personally, doing it. With all that depressing shit said: Try to be impactful in what you do. Try to outwit them with having fun; don't try to be productive. That's the only W you can take for sure.
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On the hello fresh discussion about how they are "exploiting" you that's a horrible look and opinion to take. Not sure if people have been burned, or screwed, or jaded, but you have to remember, most streamers, and by most I mean 99% aren't even worth the time of day to look at. Companies can get the exposure to huge amounts of Twitch viewers by going to the top 30 or so streamers If Hello Fresh wants to pay you a flat rate of $50 for a 30 second insert into a video, then you need to think to yourself, how many views would my video need to get in order to earn $50. Call it on a good day you get $3 per 1000 monetized views for YouTube advertising. Do your views get 16,000 - 17,000 views? If yes, then ask for more money. If no, then your 30 second insert is making you more money than your other videos make. As far as Twitch, if you get paid $200 to do a base 2 hour stream, 1 day break, and then a 2 hour stream, do you make $200 in advertising? If yes, then ask for more money. If not, then take the $200 and run with it. Epic games pays streamers $150 to play Fortnite for 4 hours. That's $37.50 an hour. People need to calm down with this "exploitation" banner they like to wave. If you are getting cash in hand for your time, then you either accept the deal or you don't. People can't exploit you if you don't let them
You're sort of right. It's a volume game. 1,000 small streamers netting 5 signups each, for no payout as we've already stated, is tacked onto the top-30 streamers who are also hawking the brand but are being paid. This is exploitation.
Then maybe make sure you read the deal before you allow a company to be vilified
Take your own advice, maybe
Thank you
Yup. At the same time, I've seen the next 2 or 3 tier of deals from that vendor. You want a better deal ask for it
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Yes but thats not being exploited. You elect to take a 0 guarantee deal. Same as when you work on straight commission. If you feel exploited its simple don't take the gig. I elected to take a flat rate and a lower commission per sale. Another streamer took the high commission and had 30 or so sign ups at 125 a sign up. But saying these companies are exploiting you is a horrible take since you signed the contract.
See, the biggest mistake you made from my perspective in this discussion is that you elected to speak about a different problem. I was outlining and explaining the systemic failure on how advertising with streamers work; how there is a power imbalance which results in exploitative behavior were only a selected few can benefit massively while the appeal for the company is to get a broad foundation of people advocating for them. It's kinda triangle shaped if you think about it. Really reminds me of a certain ancient Egyptian construction of tombs, but that's probably just my interpretation. Yet you speak about a deal that seems to kinda have worked out for you. Tender has said all the further important points. I am glad you benefitted from your deals thus far yet you mostly argue that status - e.g. of viewership - is the important metric while you conveniently ignore the "reverse funnel" nature of platforms. No, Twitch / Amazon / Advertisers do not lose money on small streamers, otherwise they would require you to pay to be able to stream. They also deliberately abuse the power they have (meta data collection, constant advertisement A-B testing as well as above mentioned dangling carrot strategies) to vet people who have the prospect of making more money for them. Otherwise it would be like injecting growth hormones into a tumor - Daddy B. would have pulled the plug long ago. Further evidence can be found in the way they are treating "partners" - what a cursed word in the context; partnership requires communication on eye-level - from the very get-go:
Yet you speak about a deal that seems to kinda have worked out for you. Tender has said all the further important points. I am glad you benefitted from your deals thus far yet you mostly argue that status - e.g. of viewership - is the important metric while you conveniently ignore the "reverse funnel" nature of platforms. No, Twitch / Amazon / Advertisers do not lose money on small streamers, otherwise they would require you to pay to be able to stream. They also deliberately abuse the power they have (meta data collection, constant advertisement A-B testing as well as above mentioned dangling carrot strategies) to vet people who have the prospect of making more money for them. Otherwise it would be like injecting growth hormones into a tumor - Daddy B. would have pulled the plug long ago. Further evidence can be found in the way they are treating "partners" - what a cursed word in the context; partnership requires communication on eye-level - from the very get-go:
- Even if you reach the arbitrary metrics they announce that you have to reach to become "partnered" they can still elect to not make you one
- Recent reduction of the payout
- A lot more Feel free to reply; however I am relatively sure that we both will just continue to disagree. And that's fine; yet I deemed it important enough to differentiate my opinion in this way to long text as this is a "public" chat.
Feel free to tell me that I should elaborate on the "- a lot more"; had to cut it down since I was running out of message space.
Also, Merry Christmas and Feliz Natal, you guys are the best volleyball team I had the honor of playing with
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God Jul to you also Thercio ❤️ hope everyone's having a good day no matter what the day entails
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I got a question to all. So I streamed yesterday and got hit by exactly 69 bot followers. Now I recently broke up with my gf and a friend said that these bot followers are bought, is that true? Seemed a little off to me, because my brother also was hit by them a couple of times, but he got like 300-500, but exactly 69 on the 24th, which is the day Christmas is celebrated in Germany, seems too conveniently timed. Are they randomly just hitting people or do they actually need to be bought? I consider it an empty gesture if so, since they don't help me in any way.
Can be anything - just remove them with ComanderRoot.
oh? lemme google that, no idea what that means 
More specifically: https://twitch-tools.rootonline.de/follower_remover.php
No worries, glad I could assist : 
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Thank you! 
On the hello fresh discussion about how they are "exploiting" you that's a horrible look and opinion to take. Not sure if people have been burned, or screwed, or jaded, but you have to remember, most streamers, and by most I mean 99% aren't even worth the time of day to look at. Companies can get the exposure to huge amounts of Twitch viewers by going to the top 30 or so streamers If Hello Fresh wants to pay you a flat rate of $50 for a 30 second insert into a video, then you need to think to yourself, how many views would my video need to get in order to earn $50. Call it on a good day you get $3 per 1000 monetized views for YouTube advertising. Do your views get 16,000 - 17,000 views? If yes, then ask for more money. If no, then your 30 second insert is making you more money than your other videos make. As far as Twitch, if you get paid $200 to do a base 2 hour stream, 1 day break, and then a 2 hour stream, do you make $200 in advertising? If yes, then ask for more money. If not, then take the $200 and run with it. Epic games pays streamers $150 to play Fortnite for 4 hours. That's $37.50 an hour. People need to calm down with this "exploitation" banner they like to wave. If you are getting cash in hand for your time, then you either accept the deal or you don't. People can't exploit you if you don't let them
I mean, I make almost $0.20 per stream on a really good day from advertising revenue, so I jumped on the $900 without really looking at what it was. Will I still make something off of it? yes, cause my dad had been looking at signing up for a while and now with the discount they gave me for my viewers to use it makes sense.
@Mods hey folks, you've got people from this server who are sending unsolicited DMs to streamers trying to sell their services.
Send me a dm so they get the banhammer.
If anyone gets any message from any so-called "artist" or "designer", take a screenshot, block them and DM the screenshot to me or any of the other @Mods, so that we can remove these accounts and keep our server clean. Not a single artist that creates value for others through their work will send DMs to anyone to promote their services. Any legit artist that wishes to do so will try to get in touch with the moderators and/or admins of the communities they are a part of, to promote their work without disrupting the community. Our community, for example, has the #⭐│commissions channel (soon to be updated into a forum channel for testing), and we already have a few verified artists that have been reviewed and allowed to post there.
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@TenderSausage I have done the unthinkable and actually scaled back my setup, removing three cameras 
But also adding one really awesome mirrorless camera for the massive visual upgrade 
But also adding one really awesome mirrorless camera for the massive visual upgrade
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How do I become a streamers trusty sidekick?
What does a streamer's sidekick do, in your perspective?
thanks @synthie_cat finally got rid of the bots, took a few days but back to my original follower numbers 
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What does a streamer's sidekick do, in your perspective?
fight bad guys
@TenderSausage I have done the unthinkable and actually scaled back my setup, removing three cameras But also adding one really awesome mirrorless camera for the massive visual upgrade
But also adding one really awesome mirrorless camera for the massive visual upgrade
Which cam did you end up with?
Which cam did you end up with?
A Canon M50 Mk 2 
The image quality upgrade is INSANE.
The image quality upgrade is INSANE.
I’m finally addressing the sound issues in my house.
It looks SO clean.
I’m so impressed with the image quality. And I can, like, use it as a camera too
I’m finally addressing the sound issues in my house.
There's me again!
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There's me again!
You keep photobombing all my shots!
I've been planning on how to improve the sound here in our office, so I used SketchUp to experiment a bit.
SketchUp is great, innit?
Currently, both PCs are over the table, but they'll be going under it when we get around to make that support
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I think my next non-streaming project is going to be building a greenhouse for my wife to grow plants in
I'm thinking of adding a wall support for my monitor, to have my side of the desk be cable-free, as it is on my girlfriend's side
I personally wish I had mounted more stuff to the wall
It's my ultimate goal. I don't want to leave anything over my desk that can be stored vertically
It’s all about these SmallRig clamps and arms. I’m sure there’s a knockoff online by now.
It's my ultimate goal. I don't want to leave anything over my desk that can be stored vertically
I want to add Legrand cable management to my office at some point: https://res.cloudinary.com/avd/image/upload/v1644260341/Resources/On-Q/SA-IWP1-W1-SellSheet.pdf
Found this one for 15$ on AliExpress
I want to add Legrand cable management to my office at some point: https://res.cloudinary.com/avd/image/upload/v1644260341/Resources/On-Q/SA-IWP1-W1-SellSheet.pdf
This looks really good for cable-managing in offices, where besides getting the job done, it gotta look good
It’s all about these SmallRig clamps and arms. I’m sure there’s a knockoff online by now.
Smallrig rocks, I have that clamp holding my overhead camera and light, and a Smallrig tripod for the new camera
Smallrig rocks, I have that clamp holding my overhead camera and light, and a Smallrig tripod for the new camera
They are, quite literally, the best rigging products I've ever used.
Found this one for 15$ on AliExpress
This one is 43$ here. Not bad, compared to other stuff I've seen lol
This kit with the clamp and arm was a good find! According to Keepa, it was costing twice the current price until Dec. 6th
It's 12am here so: Happy New Year y'all! Hope you'll have a great start into 2023.
Happy New Year! 
